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Trump's first flight in new plane marred by ridicule: ''Flying bribery palace'
A Gilded Plane Is Not a PunchlineThe Real StoryDonald Trump’s first trip on the Qatar-gifted Boeing 747 was treated as a spectacle: gold fixtures, marble bathrooms, leather seats, a grand staircase, and the kind of overbuilt vanity project that belongs to an autocrat, not a public office. But the aircraft is not the scandal. The scandal is the relationship it reveals: a sitting president accepting a luxury jet from a foreign royal family while Qatar later benefits from a cleared $1.9 billion U.S. arms sale and an unprecedented American security guarantee.Power, Not PresentationThe person with…
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